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Move over Louis Tomlinson, there's a new sasquatch in town - and he's taking on The Wanted.

Yup, the rivalry between One Direction and The Wanted reached new levels today, after Zayn Malik embarked on a war of words with Max George on Twitter.

The Twitter row/banter/whatever you want to call it seems to have been sparked by Zayn's comment two days ago, when he called Max a 'geek' for cosying up to Usher.

Now, up until this point the tweets could have all been passed off as banter. Then Tom Parker got involved, and said: 'I think "1 stripes" got his knickers in a twist'.

Unsurprisingly, Louis Tomlinson didn't stay silent for long - and leapt to the defence of his bandmate with the simple, yet sassy, '@TomTheWanted pipe down bad boy'.

Now stay with us, because this is where it gets a bit confusing timeline-wise. While the Zayn/Tom spat was going on, Max then replied to this earlier tweet from Zayn, saying: 'that's not very nice. I was just starting to like you and your RnB hits.'

A few minutes later, Tom revealed his extensive knowledge of the 1D boys nicknames, by posting a photo of Zayny-pops with the caption: "Bradford Bad Boi".